If you want to enrage a conservative, I suggest saying the following:1. A Socialist wrote the Pledge of Allegiance.2. Jesus healed the sick and helped the poor, for free. [...]6. The Founding Fathers were liberals.7. Fascism is a right-wing trait. [...]10. Reagan raised taxes eleven times as President.11. Reagan legalized abortion as Governor of California.12. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency.13. Ronald Reagan supported gun control. [...]24. Hate is not a Christian virtue. [...]26. Republicans spend MORE money than Democrats. [...]29. The Constitution is the law, NOT the Bible.30. Sharia law doesn’t exist in America.31. The President is NOT a Muslim.32. Corporations are NOT people. People are people.33. Fox News isn’t real news, it’s just a racist, sexist, hateful, right-wing propaganda machine.34. The Federal Reserve was a Republican idea.35. Women are equal citizens who deserve equal rights. [...]37. Abortion is a relevant medical procedure, just ask Rick Santorum.38. Please use spell check.39. It’s “pundit”, not “pundint”.40. Social Security is solvent through 2038. [...]42. Roe v. Wade was a bipartisan ruling made by a conservative leaning Supreme Court. [...]45. Barack Obama ordered the killing of Osama Bin Laden. It took him two and half years to do what Bush couldn’t do in eight. [...]47. 9/11 happened on George W. Bush’s watch, therefore he did NOT keep America safe. [...]49. Separation of church and state is in the Constitution, it’s called the First Amendment.50. Muslims are protected by the Constitution, just as much as Christians. [...]53. America is a nation of immigrants, therefore we are all anchor babies.54. The white race isn’t disappearing, it’s evolving. [...]56. Evolution is real.57. The Earth is 4.54 billion years old, not 6,000.58. The Founding Fathers did not free the slaves.59. The Revolution was NOT fought over slavery.60. Paul Revere warned the Americans, NOT the British.61. Federal law trumps state law.62. The Civil War was about slavery, NOT state’s rights.63. Corporations care more about profits than they do about people.64. Getting out of a recession requires government spending.65. Glenn Beck is a nut-job. [...]67. Republicans don’t want to pay for your birth control, but they want you to pay for their Viagra.68. Republicans actually NEED Viagra.69. Fox News is owned by an Australian and has a Saudi prince as an investor.70. Republicans complain about immigrants taking American jobs, then freely give American jobs to foreigners overseas. [...]72. Labor unions built this country. [...]77. Republicans only care about children BEFORE they are born. [...]82. Churches should stay out of politics, or be taxed. [...]88. The current corporate tax rate is the lowest in 60 years, so stop whining about it being too high. [...]98. Republicans say teachers are union thugs, then proceed to rape and mug the entire middle class on behalf of corporations.99. Republicans think rape isn’t a crime, but miscarriages are.[...]Bottom line? If you want to anger a conservative, tell them the truth.

Yeah, some of those are sensationalist, but I think there's a lot of good zingers in there to use against the uneducated.

I've pissed off quite a few family member when, in response to some comment about Obama being socialist, I point out that the PoA was written by a socialist (and didn't have "under God" in it until the '50s). Ditto for reminding them that facism is actually a right-wing political ideology.

I didn't know about these, though:Reagan legalized abortion as Governor of California.Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency.Roe v. Wade was a bipartisan ruling made by a conservative leaning Supreme Court. The current corporate tax rate is the lowest in 60 years.

I'll have to remember them next time they get brought up in discussion

The closest thing the left would have to Nugent is Flavor Flav. And that's not even a fair comparsion as Flav contributed to Fear of a Black Planet, Apocalypse 91 and It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, which puts him about a dozen steps beyond Nugent musically.

You also may be surprised to learn that Flav co-wrote the first Public Enemy album with Chuck D. If you're having a tough time reconciling the twitchy rap clown with the militant, revolutionary music of Public Enemy, you're not alone. When the album got them signed by Def Jam, Rick Rubin suggested that Chuck drop the guy who was wearing a wall clock around his neck, forcing Chuck to explain that Flav was the only member of their group who knew how to, you know, make music. Or as Chuck D reportedly put it, "He can play 15 instruments, I can't play Lotto."

Yeah, some of those are sensationalist, but I think there's a lot of good zingers in there to use against the uneducated.

I've pissed off quite a few family member when, in response to some comment about Obama being socialist, I point out that the PoA was written by a socialist (and didn't have "under God" in it until the '50s). Ditto for reminding them that facism is actually a right-wing political ideology.

I didn't know about these, though:Reagan legalized abortion as Governor of California.Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency.Roe v. Wade was a bipartisan ruling made by a conservative leaning Supreme Court. The current corporate tax rate is the lowest in 60 years.

I'll have to remember them next time they get brought up in discussion

Nixon also signed the Endangered Species Act. According to Wikipedia he actually told Congress he wanted them to come up with the legislation too. Oh history is so interesting.

What we're talking about here is a perpetual debt ceiling grant, in effect, to the president, " McConnell said. "Matters of this level of controversy always require 60 votes.

No, not always. It just seems that way because your party have for the last 4 years been obstructionist asshats that make every vote more controversial than ordering new toilet paper for the Senate bathrooms a 60-vote affair.

Yeah, some of those are sensationalist, but I think there's a lot of good zingers in there to use against the uneducated.

I've pissed off quite a few family member when, in response to some comment about Obama being socialist, I point out that the PoA was written by a socialist (and didn't have "under God" in it until the '50s). Ditto for reminding them that facism is actually a right-wing political ideology.

I didn't know about these, though:Reagan legalized abortion as Governor of California.Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency.Roe v. Wade was a bipartisan ruling made by a conservative leaning Supreme Court. The current corporate tax rate is the lowest in 60 years.

I'll have to remember them next time they get brought up in discussion

Nixon also signed the Endangered Species Act. According to Wikipedia he actually told Congress he wanted them to come up with the legislation too. Oh history is so interesting.

Nixon actually did a lot of good as president. He helped to pave the way for our current relations with China. He's the best Republican president in recent history.

What would be most interesting would be if the court declared that most or all of the recess appointments made since 1945 were invalid, and that accordingly, most of the actions they took had no legal standing.

He's such a fucking pussy. He needs to start burning every one of these insider-trading, embezzling from their 501c3s, banging women or men on the side mother fuckers. Get photos of adultery, release them widely. Get proof of IRS tax fraud, publicize it. It needs to be war, or we're looking at the Tea Party shutting down the government until he resigns or gets impeached or worse.

Yeah, some of those are sensationalist, but I think there's a lot of good zingers in there to use against the uneducated.

I've pissed off quite a few family member when, in response to some comment about Obama being socialist, I point out that the PoA was written by a socialist (and didn't have "under God" in it until the '50s). Ditto for reminding them that facism is actually a right-wing political ideology.

"The founding fathers were not Christian, they were Deists" was always my favourite.

If you go by the fifty six signators of the declaration of independace, there were mostly Christians with a minority of desists. It just so happens that the latter group includes some of the most famous, viz.: Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, and Franklin.

How many Americans do we suppose even understand that we had to reboot and try again in 1787? Straight up and without any context offered, I would expect the vast majority of SRB members to pick the Articles of Confederation. The Articles actually say a lot of what the SRB thinks the Constitution says.

If you go by the fifty six signators of the declaration of independace, there were mostly Christians with a minority of desists.

They were Christians in the same way that Obama is a Christian: something that is a part of their life, but not their politics. It's been my understanding, from reading people who know a lot more about this than I do that the signers of the DoI were men who valued secularism and rationality over religion, and could just as easily take it or leave it with respect to their religion. In that sense, even if they were Christian in name, they were essentially Deist in practice.

More so, the colonists were sick to death of state-sponsored religions, and only wanted to worship however they wanted. Inferring that the founders set this up as some kind of "Christian nation" shows a fundamental lack of understanding about what the founding fathers were fighting against.

It was a pretty diverse group, the cultural distance between Boston and Richmond back then is something that is hard to understand today.

That said, it is correct that many of those who themselves were devout (or at least outwardly so) were nonetheless separatist in their political outlook*, but mixing that up with the religious beliefs of deists seems awkward at best, and deceitful at worst.

*Although by no means all. At the time the Constitution was ratified a few states still had state churches. The first amendment forbid a federal church, but did not outlaw established state churches.

How any American could possible still be on Barrack HUSSEIN Obama, or whatever his legal name really is, side is shear stupidity.I especially like the part where you compared what-ever-his-name-is with two other former leaders, that also used forged documentation to get where there were.Thank you Dr. Orly Taitz, Esq. for all you have done and given in your gallant effort to save our Sacred Constitution, and this Once Great Nation.

lol. There's that good old fashioned dog whistle of "HUSSEIN". And "Sacred" lol.

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I pray that God Allah keeps you and other members of your team safe from all harm. If it is HisAllah's will truth will be revealed. Even people who doubt this case should give it a chance so that it may either be confirmed or put to rest forever! Such a doubt cast on the highest office does not do any good to the country’s image!!

American Taliban, alive and well.

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Governmental authority originates on the Divine. When tyrranny develops, God will strike it down.

I hope we get the ability to move these people to Saudi Arabia or some other Islamic fundamentalist country so they can see what "divine" authority is. Or perhaps in a time machine and see how they like living in middle ages Europe? That should rid their low IQ minds of "divine" governance once and for all methinks?

OK, I got my contempt for these people out of my system, I can now go back to my regularly scheduled program

I responded in their comments, lets see if it gets "moderated" or what kind of bitter hatred comes spewing out of their mouths.

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I did this thing called "google" and found this nice little tidy bit of information that is based on facts:

"According to the Congressional Research Service, President Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments. President George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, and as of January 5, 2012, President Barack Obama had made 32 recess appointments."

I responded in their comments, lets see if it gets "moderated" or what kind of bitter hatred comes spewing out of their mouths.

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I did this thing called "google" and found this nice little tidy bit of information that is based on facts:

"According to the Congressional Research Service, President Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments. President George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, and as of January 5, 2012, President Barack Obama had made 32 recess appointments."

Oops.

Two problems... Congress deliberately never went into recess, just to stymie Obama's appointments, and 'everyone else is doing it' isn't a good defense anyway.

There is nothing wrong with recess appointments. They have been established procedures for decades. Your "being against both sides antics" is leading you to look for stuff to tar the current administration for that isn't actually outside regular practices... unlike that weaselly manner that the Republicans tried to keep Congress in session, gaveling in for a minute at a time every three days during an extended holiday break, and only for the purposes of trying to frustrate appointments.

The Senate can rule if it was in session or not. No court will touch the issue, since it's a straight up political question, and an issue as old as the republic. The Senate can clarify if the pro forma hearings count as a session, and whether the appointments are valid. A court will not decide for the Senate to weigh in on a purely partisan dispute. Even the GWB appointees on the court have indicated this is the case thus far.

It's Orly Taitz, practically the definitive example of Crazy Birther. She's been failing on a treadmill for four years now, why should we expect her to suffer defeat rationally now?

Hey, don't forget The Donald! He lent birtherism some credence and respect.

Didn't he?

Anyway, if the GOP still hasn't gotten a clue, and wish to continue on their rightward track into the Land of Mordor, where the shadows lie, then they might as well go ahead and appoint Donald Trump head of the RNC.

After all, he's a businessman. He'll fix everything.

Oh and btw, if it hasn't been noted here already, Rick Santorum now writes a column for World Nut Daily. I guess he'll be keeping us up to date on the latest UN One World Government developments.

The Michigan State Legislature is fully controlled by the SRB. Yesterday they used the lame duck session to pass a Right-to-work bill in both the House and the Senate. Right-work bills pass Lansing. Governor Snyder has stated that he would sign the legislation. He had previously been encouraging the legislature not to take up the issue, as it was "divisive", and he had been silent on whether or not he would sign such a bill if it did reach his desk.

The State Senate also took the opportunity to pile on some more restrictions to abortion access, passing separate bills that forbid health insurance plans from covering elective abortions and requiring any facility that provides abortions to be licensed as an outpatient surgical center. Women will have to buy a separate "rider" policy for coverage. There's little doubt that these bills will pass the State House when they get there, as that body is skewed more to the GOP side than the Senate.

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It's interesting to see this modest jobs report pass by with a slight whimper. It's relegated to a subheadline on Drudge and I'm not seeing hysterical reports of "cooking the numbers" that we saw before the election.

Also interesting to me is that I had a couple of SRB Facebook friends who would post Benghazi-inspired images several times a week ("Obama lied, 4 Americans Died", etc.) before the election. I have seen zero since.

Regardless of the election results, I'm so glad it's over and hopefully we can all return to a normal amount of nuttiness.

I responded in their comments, lets see if it gets "moderated" or what kind of bitter hatred comes spewing out of their mouths.

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I did this thing called "google" and found this nice little tidy bit of information that is based on facts:

"According to the Congressional Research Service, President Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments. President George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, and as of January 5, 2012, President Barack Obama had made 32 recess appointments."

I responded in their comments, lets see if it gets "moderated" or what kind of bitter hatred comes spewing out of their mouths.

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I did this thing called "google" and found this nice little tidy bit of information that is based on facts:

"According to the Congressional Research Service, President Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments. President George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, and as of January 5, 2012, President Barack Obama had made 32 recess appointments."

For those who lack IQ's and who can't do a simple thing like use GOOGLE:

"According to the Congressional Research Service, President Bill Clinton made 139 recess appointments. President George W. Bush made 171 recess appointments, and as of January 5, 2012, President Barack Obama had made 32 recess appointments."

But, by all means make it look like Obama is the only one. Your a bunch of whiney douchebags.

AKA, just about every modern president has made recess appointments. But that doesn't matter does it since its a black Obama who's the recent one huh? Let your hate shine, your just bitter idiots who can't stand that you lost fair and square in the last election. Bite your pillow, pucker up buttercup, no one of consequence cares.